DNCC by-polls in Feb last week: EC

Election Commission acting secretary Helaluddin Ahmed on Sunday said that the by-polls for the Dhaka North City Corporation mayor’s office would be held in the last week of February.

Schedule for the election would be announced in the second week of January, he said.

He made the announcement at a news briefing at the EC office in the capital.

Earlier, the local government ministry published a gazette in December declaring the mayoral post of DNCC vacant after its first mayor Annisul Huq passed away on November 30 last at a London Hospital.

Annisul, backed by the ruling Awami League, had won the DNCC election on April 28, 2015.

News Courtesy: www.newagebd.net